194 103. SELAGINELLA. A 1 . MONOSTELICAE. b 4 . BRACHYSTACHYAE. 



(165) S. brachystachya. Spring, Hon., II, 255; Bk., Fern All., 

 113; Lycopodium brachystachyum, Hit. & Grev., Bot. Misc., Add. & Covr., 

 107; - - var. ornata, Bk., Fern All., 113, p. p.; S. ornata, Spring, 1. c., 

 259; L. ornatum, Hk. & Grev., 1. c., 108. 



Shoots reaching 30 45 cm. in length, copiously compound, generally 

 assurgent from a decumbent base, the stem unequally quadrangular, 

 sulcate down the face and sides, the branching midway between pinnate 

 and flabellate, the branchlets 4 5 mm. broad including the lateral leaves. 

 Leaves of the lower plane contiguous on the branchlets, spaced on the 

 stem, black-green, spreading, rhomboid-oblong, 4 5V4 mm. long, rather 

 straight, hardly falcate, obtuse, subentire, much dilated, broadly rounded 

 and much imbricated over the stem on the upper side at the base, 

 narrowed and adnate on the lower side; leaves of the upper plane much 

 smaller, ovate, subentire, keeled, rounded and nearly equal-sided at the 

 base, aristate-cuspidate, incurvate-falcate. Spikes 6 12V* mm. long, 3V< 

 mm. broad; sporophylla of the upper plane ovate-oblong, blunt, keeled, 

 entire; those of the lower plane V* as long, ascending, deltoid, long- 

 acuminate, spinuloso-denticulate, keeled; macrospores pale-yellow, finely 

 verruculose to rugulose on the- basal side; microspores reddish, tuber- 

 culato-verruculose. 



Forma typica: South India, Ceylon. 



War. ornata: Leaves smaller; of the lower plane slightly falcate, 

 denticulate, less broadly rounded, not much imbricated over the rachis 

 on the upper side at the base ; of the upper plane mucronate, denticulate ; 

 spikes longer, narrower, subquadrangular; sporophylla less dimorphous, 

 those of the upper plane more acute. Java, Sumatra. 



(166) S. flmbriata, Spring, Mon., II, 258; S. brachystachya, 

 Spring, var. ornata, Bk., Fern AIL, 113, p. p. 



Shoots erect, or ascending from a decumbent base, reaching 30 cm. 

 or more in length, the stem stramineous, obtusely quadrangular, convex 

 on the face and back, slightly grooved down the sides; pinnae erect o- 

 patent, pinnate; pinnulae simple or forked; ultimate branchlets 3 5 mm. 

 broad including the lateral leaves. Leaves heteromorphous; leaves of the 

 lower plane rather spaced on the stem, more approximate to contiguous 

 on the branchlets, rather spreading, firm, dark above, paler beneath; of 

 the main rachis the largest, elongate-oblong, 35 mm. long, to 2 mm. 

 broad, hardly falcate, bluntish or subacute, cordate-emarginate at the 



